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Samsung Food
Recipe and grocery list app, formerly Whisk, rebranded after Samsung acquisition and integrated with Samsung appliances
As of 1 September 2026, Samsung Food is free to use. A recipe-saving and grocery list app previously known as Whisk, acquired by Samsung in 2019 and fully rebranded to Samsung Food in 2023. Softwr lists it under Productivity. Samsung Food is made by Samsung Electronics, available on iOS, Android, Web.
Overview
What Samsung Food does
Samsung Food imports recipes from websites and social media, generates shopping lists automatically from ingredients, and offers AI-generated meal suggestions and nutrition information. It connects to Samsung smart kitchen appliances, letting a recipe send cooking settings directly to a compatible oven or send items to a Samsung Family Hub fridge screen. The fact worth stating plainly is the rename. Samsung acquired Whisk in 2019 and operated it under that name for several years before rebranding the entire product to Samsung Food in August 2023. There is no remaining Whisk-branded app; anyone referencing Whisk today is describing an earlier version of the same product family. The Samsung ownership also explains the appliance integration that a standalone grocery list app like AnyList or Bring does not attempt. Buyers pay nothing directly since the app is free, and Samsung monetises it indirectly as part of its appliance ecosystem, aiming to make Samsung kitchen hardware more useful. The trade-off is that the appliance integration only matters to someone who owns Samsung kitchen products; for anyone else it functions as a free recipe and grocery list app competing with AnyList and Bring on the list-management side alone.
What people use it for
- Someone who owns Samsung kitchen appliances and wants recipes to send settings directly to the oven
- A household wanting a shared grocery list that builds itself from saved recipes
- A home cook who saves recipes from social media and wants ingredients turned into a shopping list automatically
- Someone who previously used Whisk and needs to know it is the same product under a new name
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Samsung Food.
- The appliance integration, its most distinctive feature, is only useful to someone who owns compatible Samsung kitchen hardware.
- The rebrand from Whisk to Samsung Food in 2023 means older references, saved links or bookmarks under the Whisk name can confuse returning users.
- As a Samsung ecosystem product, its long-term roadmap is tied to Samsung hardware strategy rather than to the grocery list feature on its own.
- Recipe import from arbitrary websites and social media can be inconsistent depending on how a source page is structured.
- It lacks some of the granular list customisation, such as manual sorting by store aisle, that dedicated list apps like AnyList and Bring focus on.
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- Samsung FoodvsBring!
Bring!: If you want a simple, fast shared grocery list app with no appliance integration
Pricing
What Samsung Food costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Samsung Food
Free
- Recipe import and saving
- Automatic grocery lists
- Samsung appliance integration
Capabilities
Features
Recipe import
Saves recipes from websites and social media into one collection
Automatic grocery list generation
Builds a shopping list from recipe ingredients automatically
AI meal suggestions
Recommends recipes based on saved preferences and history
Samsung appliance integration
Sends cooking settings to compatible Samsung ovens and displays on Family Hub fridges
Nutrition information
Shows nutritional breakdowns for saved recipes
Shared lists
Grocery lists shared and synced between household members
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Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Is Samsung Food the same as Whisk?
Yes, Samsung acquired Whisk in 2019 and rebranded it entirely to Samsung Food in August 2023; Whisk no longer exists as a separate app.
Is Samsung Food free?
Yes, it has no subscription or paid tier.
Do I need Samsung appliances to use it?
No, the core recipe and grocery list features work without them, but appliance integration only works with compatible Samsung hardware.
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